I may have found the answer - Could this be an electrolytic Nickel/Immersion gold? The board uses 8 mil minimum conductor patterns? I also just found out they took our Shanghai engineer to a differenet plant for the site inspection, and that the cross section and solderability testing on one of the boards was done on a non-RoHS board with Sn/Pb solder, who knows what they actually sent us. Is this some odd universe I've been transported to? Does anyone else have to deal with such runaround? Pete --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------